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How to Dad

Entertaining to the core, this dad from New Zealand is sensitive, funny and a powerhouse of talent. He usually shoots videos featuring his three kids, where he talks about the country and gives a glimpse of the spectrum of experiences that make up the art of fatherhood. He makes cool raps to explain to kids topics ranging from Covid protocols to hilarious how-to videos with them. From showing how to talk to a child to how to make a child clean a room, his videos have a funny intent and often show his epic fails too. His rant videos talking about dad problems put across societal stigmas faced by parents with a dose of humour, serving the purpose while not being didactic.

Subscribers: 1.2 M

The dad lab

This channel is perfect for parents who have observed a creative inclination in their child and love to keep them busy with fun learning activities. Dad Sergei Urban reminds us of Rancho’s character played by Aamir Khan in 3 Idiots. With his two kids Alex and Max, he engages in science experiments at home with easily available items like balloons, eggs, salt and sugar, and explores various educational toys, children’s books and simple craft activities. He teaches making cool toys at home, and even healthy recipes for children. The videos show Sergei’s cute kids learning numbers, spellings, phonics in a fun and innovative way and having a gala time with their dad making fun art projects.

Subscribers: 3.01M

The single dad nomad

This YouTube channel run by single parent Nicholas Demski featuring his travel diaries with daughter Auburn aka Abby, gives us a peek into a life that many of us dream of but do not dare to live. Nicholas is a nomad at heart and travels the world non-stop experiencing life with Abby while earning through temporary teaching jobs to finance his travels. The single dad’s innumerable challenges from handling his child’s grumpiness in a queue to managing to make videos even when the child is meddling in the process, gets captured while he imparts his knowledge on budget travelling, self-improvement through travelling and tips and tricks. To top this all, his video list includes an interesting series of vignettes from living a van life with his daughter too. Inspiring and informative, this channel keeps its subscribers hooked.

Subscribers: 3.55 K

Andrew Schrock

Andy Schrock, who runs this channel, is quite a passionate adventurer and makes entertaining videos of his adventures on a skateboard. From taking skating challenges with his buddies to playing public pranks with his skateboard, Andy does it all. But what is even more entertaining is his videos with his kids. Andy is a dad to three kids and often makes videos indulging his kids on his skating and gaming adventures too. Be it playing baseball or video gaming or teaching his one-year-old to skate, the videos are overloaded with cuteness and captures the fun time these kids have with their father while participating in many adventurous activities at a tender age.

Subscribers: 4.05 M

Dude dad

Comedian and actor Taylor Calmus turns his passion for comedy, storytelling and creativity into sharing his fatherhood journey through this YouTube channel. Picking up genres like parent humour, parody and comedy, he makes fun videos on pranks, challenges, reviews, parenting tips and tricks. A dad to three kids, Taylor comically captures the journey of his wife’s pregnancy, his kid’s adorable reactions to the newborn in the family, and DIY activities with his kids. His channel features imaginative and creative comedy and parody contents too with his children like ‘If Babies were on Animal Planet’ and ‘If Babies had Bodyguard’.

Subscribers: 373 K

@dadsaysjokes

#Dadjokes is a term we are all familiar with and have experienced someone cracking one, dad or not! But thinking stereotypically, many dads are actually great at it quite naturally. These jokes are funnily unfunny and the punchline is where instead of a laugh we often have an unamused expression on our faces, thinking how worse it could get. Well, dad jokes have their own cult followers and if you are one of them this Insta account has thousands of good ones in store.

Followers: 2.2 M

@notsofunnydad

Nigel, the account creator has two kids with whom he posts interesting pictures of their fun time together, unlike what the account name suggests. Sometimes the pictures come with a funny caption or just captures a fun moment. Using incredible photography and editing skills, Nigel captures unusual Instagrammable pictures of the father-child moments using almost any objects from a data cable to a mirror or fruits.

Followers: 17.1 K

@lunchboxdad

If you are a parent struggling to pack appetising lunchboxes for your kids or scouting for recipes for them to eat, this Insta account by Beau Coffron is sure to blow your mind. Coffron in his Insta videos, series and reels shows easy, crisp and interesting recipes, where his sons often lend him a hand. The account also features innovative food art videos and pictures of Coffron packing almost any food inside a lunchbox that no kid could refuse to eat.

Followers: 40.7 K

@officialheavymetalbaby

This Insta account is totally unique, where Marcel Desobeau creates videos with his daughter using heavy metal tracks. From taking her first steps and saying her morning hello to playing with drumsticks or listening to her dad read out stories, heavy metal is what keeps this baby going.

Followers: 244 K

@justin.wesson

This dad had become popular on the Internet overnight when his wife had posted a video of his cute mirror dance on Maroon 5’s Girls Like You with daughter Myla a few years back. Myla has grown up and has a little brother too, and the account features countless more cute family videos of the dad with his two kids from tapping their feet together to making a dollhouse for Myla.

Followers: 46 K